Ripgrep – A new command line search tool

Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by libman on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:15PM (#12566236)

Tragically the news that LLVM is switching to a non-Copyfree license (see copyfree.org/standard/rejected) has ruined everything... Nothing written in Rust can be called Free Software. :(

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Re:Ripgrep – A new command line search tool by alphapapa on Saturday September 24, 2016 @02:24PM (#12571955)

According to that site, Free Software (as defined by the FSF) is not Copyfree.

As far as I can tell, Copyfree is like the BSD license, except you can only restrict changes to the license text itself; the license itself may not be changed or added to, but everything else in the project may be used and changed in any way. So, effectively, it seems like a license where the license itself is copyrighted with all rights reserved, but the rest of the project is public domain.

So, just like BSD, anyone can take a Copyfree project proprietary, turning it non-free.

The GPL is as important today as ever.

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